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Re:Spotify cuts almost 1,600 jobs amid rising costs by cultofmetatron on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:05AM (#38516265)
yea seriosuly.. they're desktop app is electron. its not like their individual apps are getting special attention.

imho, I'd pay extra for a good NATIVE spotify client for the mac

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Re:Spotify cuts almost 1,600 jobs amid rising costs by capableweb on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:31AM (#38516472)
> they're desktop app is electron

AFAIK, it's not actually Electron, but their own tooling using Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). Also AFAIK, they came up with their solution for this before Electron was even a thing (so before Atom the code editor, which Electron came from).

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Re:Spotify cuts almost 1,600 jobs amid rising costs by user_named on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:44AM (#38516570)
No you wouldn't
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